I thought I should share this gem with the list:
An iPhone application that takes your location via GPS, lists articles
about nearby towns/buildings/objects/etc., and reads them to you via
speech synthesis. Instant free audio tour guide, (almost) anywhere.
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Charlotte Webb
charlottethew...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Magnus Manske
magnusman...@googlemail.com wrote:
As a technical note, CSS3 promises to have nifty features, such as
adding text based on class. It might be that we can then realize
Trying to access en.wikipedia from the UK fails. Other wikipedias are OK.
Error message (extremely helpful):
ERROR
The requested URL could not be retrieved
While trying to retrieve the URL:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:GeoTemplate/Group
The following error was encountered:
*
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Brion Vibber br...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 2/25/09 11:49 AM, Magnus Manske wrote:
Trying to access en.wikipedia from the UK fails. Other wikipedias are OK.
[snip]
Error message (extremely helpful):
* Access Denied.
Access control configuration
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Brion Vibber br...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 2/25/09 12:12 PM, Magnus Manske wrote:
3) You're connecting from an IP address that's been blacklisted due to
abusive spidering
I'm on cable modem so I'm likely to keep my IP, right?
Also, would that blacklist only
I found it annoying that, to enter a new reference, you'd have to go
to edit mode, find the position again, and then put in the reference.
So I wrote a little javascript...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske/insertref.js
Works like this:
1. In /view/ mode, select some text (has to
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 8:24 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/4/17 wjhon...@aol.com:
Wikipedia is like moving into a city where all the inhabitants are helping
to build all of the buildings, and you have some organized and disorganized
crime elements like in any city.
Knol is
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:33 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
Apparently we're conspiring with Microsoft.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nike6/3457023387/
Damn, they found out! Quick, grab the money stash, I'll get our
tickets to Vanuatu!
Magnus
I have set up a highly experimental (read: pre-pre-alpha) tool on the
toolserver to search for combinations of key/value pairs in templates.
Like TemplateTiger, but for the live site (one day...)
URL:
http://toolserver.org/~magnus/knights_template.php
(as in Knights Templar, sorry, couldn't
After Microsoft's surprising unveiling of Yet Another Search Engine
(TM) named bing, I just /had/ to strike back with a similar
Wiki(m|p)edia search interface, consequently called bong.
Using Cambridge as an example (because there's something for each section):
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 6:52 PM, stevertigostv...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Charles
Matthewscharles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote:
On the other hand, why is a Wikipedia article citing a Bible verse?
Because in spite of their dominant representation, its the Wikipedia
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Matthew Brownmor...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Magnus
Manskemagnusman...@googlemail.com wrote:
Come to think of it:
The bible is either wrong, in which case it shouldn't be cited.
Or it's true, which would mean that it was dictated by
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 12:29 AM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
Funny Wycliffe is the only one who states clearly that God created
everything from nothing.
http://toolserver.org/~magnus/biblebay.php?booknumber=bookname=Genesisrange=1%3A1source=doit=Do+it
created everything from nothing? Just like
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:09 AM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/7/7 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com:
2009/7/6 Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com:
You're right. To atone for my sins, here the auto-comparing toolserver
tool I hacked since my first mail:
http://toolserver.org
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Charles
Matthewscharles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote:
Magnus Manske wrote:
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:09 AM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/7/7 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com:
2009/7/6 Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com:
You're right
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Jussi-Ville
Heiskanencimonav...@gmail.com wrote:
Charles Matthews wrote:
The use of transclusion by section on Wikisource would make it
technically simple to bring the existing verses (or chapters) together
on pages for parallel reading. Of course it would be a
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Durovanadezhda.dur...@gmail.com wrote:
You might be surprised. The biggest obstacle is that most of the people who
own copyrights simply don't understand wikis and free culture. They're used
to thinking in terms of reproduction permission, which presupposes an
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Carcharothcarcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Magnus
Manskemagnusman...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Durovanadezhda.dur...@gmail.com wrote:
You might be surprised. The biggest obstacle is that most of
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 1:49 PM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/7/21 Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk:
2009/7/21 Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com:
Yes, you are right. So how did we get to OTRS instead of directing
people to the Upload button? I'm confused now. I'm sure
[[Ian O'Brien]], Australian swimmer
[[Austin Nichols]], US actor
[[Cynna Kydd]], Australian netball player
[[Kevin O'Halloran]], Australian swimmer
[[Sandra Morgan]], Australian swimmer
All features articles, all lacking an image, even though they all have
appeared at big public events.
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Carcharothcarcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Carcharothcarcharot...@googlemail.com
wrote:
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Magnus
Manskemagnusman...@googlemail.com wrote:
[[Ian O'Brien]], Australian swimmer
[[Austin
Trying to overcome my aversion towards Java, I've written a little app
that can aggregate watchlists for a user across WikiMedia projects.
'nuff said:
http://magnusmanske.de/MetaWatchlist/
Cheers,
Magnus
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On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Carcharothcarcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Carcharothcarcharot...@googlemail.com
wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Pauling_Award
PPS. Someone told me, months ago, how to set things up so that
disambiguation page
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:53 AM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/8/9 Bod Notbod bodnot...@gmail.com:
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 12:47 PM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote:
The problem being discussed in this thread would be solved by the
feature (much-desired by Commons) of turning
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Carcharothcarcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
Is there a summary of what's changed?
Well, it's completely new, so check out the manual link on the page,
and the original requirements, which have been met or exceeded:
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Carcharothcarcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Magnus
Manskemagnusman...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Carcharothcarcharot...@googlemail.com
wrote:
Is there a summary of what's changed?
Well, it's
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Carcharothcarcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Magnus
Manskemagnusman...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Carcharothcarcharot...@googlemail.com
wrote:
Is there a summary of what's changed?
Well, it's
I'm not here to discuss the wording of the fundraising slogans yet
again, but this one screams legal trouble:
Wikipedia. Ad-free forever.
[Progress bar] [Donate now button]
I'd interpret this as if we reach $7.5M, Wikipedia will be ad-free
forever. I really wish that'd be the case, but if not,
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 4:08 PM, altally altal...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Carcharoth
carcharot...@googlemail.comwrote:
I've wanted to find out how many redirects I've created, but the
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com wrote:
A half step is possible: Editing with syntax highlighting and hiding
of common blocks (i.e. references collapse down to just the tag unless
you navigate the cursor into them).
No syntax highlighting, but the rest I can
IMHO a lot of the problems with unsourced BLP would go away if it were
easier to find sources.
So, I did what I always do: Write a tool :-)
To get a random article from [[Category:BLP articles lacking sources]]:
http://toolserver.org/~magnus/save_a_blp.php
To get a specific page:
Hi all,
just toolspamming my latest...
I read the announcement for Britain Loves Wikipedia, was sad to find
no museum in or immediately around my place participates, and tried to
look for the nearest one. Harder than it sounds, if you're not very
familiar with British geography.
So I wrote a
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Amory Meltzer amorymelt...@gmail.com wrote:
Delete and protect are in the dropdown arrow next to the star on the
upper-right. Block is where it always was, on the toolbar on the
left, but you have to click the arrow to display the menu. The reason
none of
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 6:15 PM, Calculator Ftvb i...@futuramerlin.com wrote:
On 13 May 2010 10:14, Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com wrote:
Maybe that should be done automatically for everyone where monobook.js
exists but vector.js doesn't?
If that were done, it would be important
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 8:08 PM, Ian Woollard ian.wooll...@gmail.com wrote:
On 13/05/2010, AGK wiki...@googlemail.com wrote:
I prefer the old location for the search box, yes. But I think that's
because I'm _used_
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com
wrote:
The link to Special:Search is the magnifying glass icon next to (or
in) the search box.
To get Search instead of Go, do what Magnus
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 3:26 AM, David Goodman dgoodma...@gmail.com wrote:
Not bad in terms of function, except for the small size of the search
box, which should be twice the current size there. But it would
still be better on the left side, under the logo.
How about having JavaScript
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Carcharoth
carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
Anyone know why there isn't an article on Wikipedia on polarized light
microscopy?
Are you talking about [[Differential interference contrast
microscopy]] or [[Interference reflection microscopy]]? Both appear to
Hi all,
since there's already several million iPad (and soon, other tablet)
users out there, I thought I'd try one in the Apple store to see what
Wikipedia looks/feels like. Generally, I think it's very nice, with
one exception. In portrait mode, the sidebar takes up a lot of real
estate.
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
And war to control the content of the NPOV article is not a disastrous
idea?
It is, by far, the lesser of two evils.
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On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
A list has been prepared by Alastair Plumb of Asylum:
http://www.asylum.co.uk/2010/10/21/the-12-most-amazing-and-useless-wikipedia-pages-in-the-world/
Only a few images from Wiki[mp]edia, and those only attributed
This stuff will apparently show up in Amazon search results soon-ish:
http://www.amazon.com/wiki/James_Joyce
Interesting idea, though I find it slightly disturbing for some reason...
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On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
We were not consulted, and are currently fully examining this. It is not
official or endorsed by us.
Thanks for clarifying.
Now, here is an idea we might be able to turn this on its head to our
advantage (warning, radical
Hi all,
I'm still on vacation, but I saw the WYSIWYG discussion, reloaded,
and was bored, so...
As far as I could deduce, the goal is to use a run-of-the-mill HTML
WYSIWYG editor, with minimal modifications, to edit MediaWiki text.
Since rebuilding the perfect parser has Failed Repeatedly (TM),
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Magnus Manske
magnusman...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 12:30 AM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Magnus Manske
magnusman...@googlemail.com wrote:
Force-reload, go to an article, and you'll see a new
?
Steve
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 7:01 PM, Magnus Manske
magnusman...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 12:30 AM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Magnus Manske
magnusman...@googlemail.com wrote:
Force-reload, go to an article, and you'll
=Ninja_Gaiden_(Nintendo_Entertainment_System)diff=405556357oldid=393253462
It did mess up a couple of things which I did not touch, so consider this an
early bug report of sorts :)
-MuZemike
On 12/29/2010 7:16 AM, Magnus Manske wrote:
I see three parts that will be required for a fully functional demo
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 8:42 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 3 January 2011 20:26, Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com wrote:
Update : Misc fixes, diff function, preview function.
How close is this to being something to tell (more of) the world
about? (At least the WMF
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 11:32 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 3 January 2011 22:53, Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com wrote:
Where do you suppose to plug it? Signpost? A blog?
internal-l, for a start. I posted a pointer to my small pamphlet on
WYSIWYG there too. There's
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 12:02 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
WYSIWYG? WSYIWTF!
OK, what *does* the TF at the end of the second initialism mean?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTF
(first interpretation)
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 1:02 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 3 January 2011 23:47, Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 11:32 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 3 January 2011 22:53, Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com wrote
Hi Marc,
have a look at my toy:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WYSIFTW
Seems to do most of what yours does, but not limited to Windows.
Cheers,
Magnus
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Marc Kerbiquet mkerbiq...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
I'm writing a WYSIWYM editor for MediaWiki, it is a
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Marc Kerbiquet mkerbiq...@gmail.com wrote:
have a look at my toy:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WYSIFTW
Seems to do most of what yours does, but not limited to Windows.
I couldn't make it work with IE8, Firefox 3.6.9 and Seamonkey 2.0.2 on
Windows :-(
Huh
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 1:37 AM, Kwan Ting Chan k...@ktchan.info wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12171977
Wikipedia is too complicated for many people to modify despite billing
itself as the free encyclopaedia that anyone can edit, its founder has
said.
*cough*
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 1:32 AM, Magnus Manske
magnusman...@googlemail.com Nice :-)
Update : WYSIFTW now with auto-collapsed references!
Hey Magnus, not sure if you're looking for more feedback, but, I just
tried
Top 50 viewed articles per hour, now aggregated and browsable:
http://toolserver.org/~magnus/toptopics.php
Currently en.wp and de.wp only. Backfilled 5 days. Will be updated
every hour automatically from now on. API coming soon-ish.
Cheers,
Magnus
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 11:04 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 18 July 2012 10:47, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
I remember it being referred to many years ago as long-standing
practice, but I've dug around a bit in the discussion archives and
can't seem to pin it
One thing this and previous designs agree upon is to use a three-column
layout for content. On today's wide screens, reduced line length for the
main text should improve readability, and still use the side columns
pragmatically; it seems the TOC usually goes to the left, and infoboxes to
the
For those of you who like to try out a similar three-column layout, this
just fresh from the presses:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske/common.css
(activates on wide screens only)
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 8:55 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 29 January 2013 12:10,
://userstyles.org/styles/82333/wikipedia-3-columns-magnus-manske
Steve
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Magnus Manske
magnusman...@googlemail.com wrote:
For those of you who like to try out a similar three-column layout, this
just fresh from the presses:
https://en.wikipedia.org
...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hey, that works :)
I put it on userstyles.org. So if you use the Stylish plugin for
Chrome or Firefox, you can add it here:
http://userstyles.org/styles/82333/wikipedia-3-columns-magnus-manske
Steve
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Magnus Manske
magnusman
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 11:29 PM, Mark delir...@hackish.org wrote:
On 1/30/13 1:41 AM, Steve Bennett wrote:
A couple of screenshots to save people the effort:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/**767553/eiger-normal.pnghttps://dl.dropbox.com/u/767553/eiger-normal.png
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 9:16 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
Looks nice! Feels a bit visually busy ... maybe not being used to it.
The languages dropdown seems a bit mystery-meat navigation to me -
perhaps
co-founder of Wikipedia and many others. Indeed.
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 1:51 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
A commercial enterprise a bit like a wiki or a blog that's a way to
crowdsource *high-quality* information.
http://columbus.craigslist.org/eng/3614099241.html
- d.
Why not wait until Wikidata has a number type, then generate these for
all countries with a bot?
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 6:50 PM, Alex Peek alexpe...@gmail.com wrote:
I am working on a project to duplicate a standardized economic report for
all 196 countries.
Here is the United States:
senses?
Alex
On 17 April 2013 03:20, Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com wrote:
Why not wait until Wikidata has a number type, then generate these for
all countries with a bot?
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 6:50 PM, Alex Peek alexpe...@gmail.com wrote:
I am working on a project
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